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Playing the Pauses: Book 2 of the Sex, Love, and Rock & Roll Series
Michelle Hazen, author
Independent woman meets her Dominant rock star kryptonite
Kate is a globe-trotting tour manager who can’t be tied down.
Danny is a Dominant rock star and tattoo artist who needs her help to explore his true kinks.
Kate just got her big break, running an international tour for a rising band. Her job is everything to her…at least until she meets the band’s enigmatic bass player.
After they collide in one unforgettably erotic night on a hotel balcony, he comes to her with a proposition. As a former BDSM club performer, Danny’s spent so long fulfilling other people’s fantasies that now he wants to reclaim his own—and he says she’s the only one who can help.
Getting caught in bed with her rock star boss could cost her career, and yet there’s something about Danny’s quiet intensity that she can’t resist. He steals her heart, hard. But the end of the tour is approaching, and their jobs are headed two different directions.
To be together one of them will have to stop touring, but the only thing they crave as much as each other is music.
Reviews
Hazen returns to the rough-and-tumble rock music world with her snappy second Sex, Love, and Rock & Roll contemporary (after A Cruel Kind of Beautiful). Kate Madsen’s father bailed when she was 10, and her mother’s mental illness compounded her trauma. Now a music tour manager, she doesn’t let anyone get too close. Tattoo artist turned bassist Danny O’Neil never lived up to his exacting parents’ expectations, even after his band, the Red Letters, started to take off. When the two meet, it’s with a lust-filled, BDSM-fueled passion, and once they’re on tour they sneak in trysts wherever and whenever possible. Even as Kate tries to keep her emotional distance—knowing that nothing will be certain once the tour’s over—she falls in love. Hazen’s command of the music business imbues every scene with authenticity, and her hero with a heart of gold will make readers swoon. In addition to the complex, quirky heroine of this tale, Hazen brings back previous heroine Jera in a considerably deeper and more appealing fashion than in her first appearance. By turns funny, sad, and introspective, Hazen’s story will strike a chord with readers. (BookLife)
